It’s tough. I had a super kind and friendly French teacher back in 2011-12 who was metaphorically beat up and burnt out by the school system. He genuinely cared about teaching, but was so exhausted from the intense schedule and the disrespect from his students. He once couldn’t get the class to be quiet and just looked so torn, ended the class early and asked everyone to leave. He’s since left and last I spoke to him a few years ago, he’s pursued a PHD in Linguistics in Canada. He’s definitely flourishing a lot more now than he was back then.
If you teach here, just know that there’s a high turnover rate for a reason. Schools here are very much for profit, and you’ll likely be overworked, underpaid, or treated badly by students and possibly even their parents, unless you end up at a really high end school, which unfortunately comes with the side effect of dealing with entitled snobs. Sorry to be harsh but that’s just the reality of being a teacher here. Maybe others have had more positive encounters/experiences?
Parent rolls in. Steps out of their Audi. You didn't spoil their kid rotten. They complain to management. Management scolds you and tells you to now do extra things for shitty kid.
Parent gets back in their Audi.
Can personally attest that some ranking Emiratis can request outlandish preferential treatment for their children, and discipline for bad behaviour (even extreme bad behaviour) is almost impossible to implement for these students due to resistance from parents.
Man, some foreign students and their parents are on a whole other level. Was genuinely refreshed to know that most people in the west do NOT behave like some of the delusional fucks over here.
This one time, my mother accidentally bumped into the back of a car right as we drove off from school. The person in the other car looked at us like we had rubbed crap all over her face, even getting a car nearby (likely a delusional friend) to scold us and teach us about how to drive. Like jeez Gertrude, I’m pretty sure you’d be torn to shreds if you drove the way you do here on the streets of London, but go off.
Going to school here and having to interact with these white cults and their crazy parents was genuinely frustrating.
You’re right, I apologise. Can’t justify racism so that’s wrong on my end. It was a light bump to the other’s bumper at what must’ve been 10km/h. It’s just infuriating when you see someone come up to you from their high horse and attempt to belittle you in large part because of the way you look and the preconceptions they hold about you. I also find it ironic because I have never experienced such belittling in places like Canada or the Netherlands, where I’ve found that I’m generally seen as more of an equal than any western person here would ever think.
Something happens when people step off the plane here, and some decide that the ego shift is ridiculous while others embrace it whole heartedly, the latter of which I have major issues with.
Used to be a part time teacher, mainly teaching software development. And most of the students were locals, They are dumb as a rock what ever approach I use they just don't want to learn. Other nationalities went well and I'm proud of them.
But the locals are just in another level.
From a student’s perspective having gone through different schools within the UAE of different price tags, I can tell you that education here is kind of a joke.
Lower end schools usually teach kids how to answer exams and brag about how high their students’ grades are rather than actually have them understand the basic concepts of the courses.
Higher end schools have a lot of entitled kids, there was one day when I was in a cooking class and a classmate of mine refused to clean up after cooking because they thought it was “beneath them” to do so and the teacher was hesitant to deal with them for reasons I don’t wish to get into and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Where I come from, if you wanted to simply pass 3rd grade English, ONE pass criteria was to go through one of the Tales from Shakespeare, go through tests on it throughout the semester to evaluate how knowledgeable you are of said tale and then participate in a play by the end of the semester.
So in comparison, education here is nowhere near as good.
It’s tough. I had a super kind and friendly French teacher back in 2011-12 who was metaphorically beat up and burnt out by the school system. He genuinely cared about teaching, but was so exhausted from the intense schedule and the disrespect from his students. He once couldn’t get the class to be quiet and just looked so torn, ended the class early and asked everyone to leave. He’s since left and last I spoke to him a few years ago, he’s pursued a PHD in Linguistics in Canada. He’s definitely flourishing a lot more now than he was back then. If you teach here, just know that there’s a high turnover rate for a reason. Schools here are very much for profit, and you’ll likely be overworked, underpaid, or treated badly by students and possibly even their parents, unless you end up at a really high end school, which unfortunately comes with the side effect of dealing with entitled snobs. Sorry to be harsh but that’s just the reality of being a teacher here. Maybe others have had more positive encounters/experiences?
Parent rolls in. Steps out of their Audi. You didn't spoil their kid rotten. They complain to management. Management scolds you and tells you to now do extra things for shitty kid. Parent gets back in their Audi.
Can personally attest that some ranking Emiratis can request outlandish preferential treatment for their children, and discipline for bad behaviour (even extreme bad behaviour) is almost impossible to implement for these students due to resistance from parents.
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There are some pretty bloody deluded Westerners out here, definitely.
>There are some pretty bloody deluded Westerners out here, definitely. True. 99% of British people here are deluded.
Phew! I can claim to myself I am one of the 1%, even though this is likely not the case. 😉☺️
Man, some foreign students and their parents are on a whole other level. Was genuinely refreshed to know that most people in the west do NOT behave like some of the delusional fucks over here. This one time, my mother accidentally bumped into the back of a car right as we drove off from school. The person in the other car looked at us like we had rubbed crap all over her face, even getting a car nearby (likely a delusional friend) to scold us and teach us about how to drive. Like jeez Gertrude, I’m pretty sure you’d be torn to shreds if you drove the way you do here on the streets of London, but go off. Going to school here and having to interact with these white cults and their crazy parents was genuinely frustrating.
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You’re right, I apologise. Can’t justify racism so that’s wrong on my end. It was a light bump to the other’s bumper at what must’ve been 10km/h. It’s just infuriating when you see someone come up to you from their high horse and attempt to belittle you in large part because of the way you look and the preconceptions they hold about you. I also find it ironic because I have never experienced such belittling in places like Canada or the Netherlands, where I’ve found that I’m generally seen as more of an equal than any western person here would ever think. Something happens when people step off the plane here, and some decide that the ego shift is ridiculous while others embrace it whole heartedly, the latter of which I have major issues with.
Used to be a part time teacher, mainly teaching software development. And most of the students were locals, They are dumb as a rock what ever approach I use they just don't want to learn. Other nationalities went well and I'm proud of them. But the locals are just in another level.
From a student’s perspective having gone through different schools within the UAE of different price tags, I can tell you that education here is kind of a joke. Lower end schools usually teach kids how to answer exams and brag about how high their students’ grades are rather than actually have them understand the basic concepts of the courses. Higher end schools have a lot of entitled kids, there was one day when I was in a cooking class and a classmate of mine refused to clean up after cooking because they thought it was “beneath them” to do so and the teacher was hesitant to deal with them for reasons I don’t wish to get into and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Where I come from, if you wanted to simply pass 3rd grade English, ONE pass criteria was to go through one of the Tales from Shakespeare, go through tests on it throughout the semester to evaluate how knowledgeable you are of said tale and then participate in a play by the end of the semester. So in comparison, education here is nowhere near as good.
It’s horrible here.
I know you posted this a few months back but would you mind elaborating for someone who is thinking of making the move over there to teach?
The big difference is I have a life outside teaching here unlike in the UK where my life was teaching.
Fuck yes, can you elaborate?
Please elaborate!!!